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Hidden Voices: Antonia Pantoja Social Studies – Day 1 Hidden Voices: Antonia Pantoja Objective Read the story of Antonia Pantoja, a woman who changed New York City. Resources/Materials • Fighting for Puerto Rican New York • Fort Apache Protest image Activity • Read Fighting for Puerto Rican New York. As you read highlight, underline, or mark up the pages where you find answers to the questions below: ̶ Why did Antonia Pantoja found ASPIRA? ̶ Why did so many Puerto Ricans move to New York in the early decades of the 20th century? ̶ How did Puerto Ricans arriving in New York transform a small community into a city within a city? ̶ What were some of the challenges newly arriving Puerto Ricans faced? ̶ In what important ways did Antonia Pantoja promote and extend the rights and opportunities of Latinx people in New York City? ̶ How did Antonia Pantoja help to change rules and laws to help the Puerto Rican community in New York City? • After completing the reading answer the questions above. Use evidence from the text to support your answers. • Look at Fort Apache Protest image and answer the questions below the image. • Reflect on the following question, “What are some issues or social concerns that people demonstrate about in NYC today?” Additional Resources • The Legacy Project: Dra. Antonia Pantoja - Inductee https://legacyprojectchicago.org/person/dra- antonia-pantoja Learn at Home: Social Studies Resources for Families Grade 8 Social Studies – Day 1 Hidden Voices: Antonia Pantoja • PBS: Antonia Pantoja ¡Presente! https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/87537891-1a6d-41c6- 9662-b09db4c17201/antonia-pantoja-presente/ Learn at Home: Social Studies Resources for Families Grade 8 Antonia Pantoja Fighting for Puerto Rican New York Between 1940 and 1960, over 800,000 Puerto Ricans Antonia Pantoja on the Coney Island boardwalk, moved to the United States mainland, about 85% of them c. 1945 to New York City . Antonia Pantoja (1922–2002) became one of their most important leaders . A schoolteacher from San Juan, she founded an organization—ASPIRA— that trained politicians, activists, and reformers to lead New York’s growing Puerto Rican community in the following decades . Born into a family of poor but educated tobacco and laundry workers, Antonia Pantoja never knew her father, who was not married to her mother . Neighbors helped her attend the University of Puerto Rico . In 1942 she became a teacher in rural schools . Later she would see education as central both to her own ambitions and to the needs of Puerto Ricans on their native island and in New York . In 1944 she moved to New York and found wartime factory work making radios for submarines . In 1950 she applied for an I .D . card as a U .S . citizen “born in Puerto Rico .” The “ You cannot live birth certificate she a life that is ou submitted described her as a “mestiza”— lukewarm. Y Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños. “of mixed race .” Antonia Pantoja Papers, 1923–2002. Box 26, Folder 7. need to live a life In Puerto Rico of commitment and New York, Pantoja resisted discrimination against darker- skinned Latinos . Migrants applied for identification from Puerto and passion.” Antonia Pantoja Rico’s Department of Agriculture & Commerce . Helen Lehew, Antonia Pantoja moved to New York from San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1944. This is the Identification Certificate Application that she filed in 1950 as a U.S. citizen. The Antonia Pantoja Papers. Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, CUNY. Pantoja’s roommate on Baruch Place on the Lower East Side, was the supporting witness for her application . Pantoja’s birth certificate in Spanish noted her residence in San Juan’s Barrio Obrero, a community of working people . Pantoja and other postwar arrivals joined the city’s existing community of over 60,000 Puerto Ricans, who had established vibrant and varied institutions in the early decades of the 20th century . Job opportunities in New York—and direct passenger flights from San Juan—encouraged thousands of Puerto Ricans to move to “Nueva York .” They transformed a small community into a city within a city: a Spanish-speaking population with major settlements in East Harlem, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and the East and West Sides . Bodegas, or grocery stores, proliferated in Puerto Rican neighborhoods . But Puerto Ricans also encountered discrimination, poverty, and a declining industrial job market . Many new migrants, moreover, were poorer campesinos, or rural farmers, with little or no tradition of literacy or formal education . esponsibility… to “I have a r The city exposed Pantoja to diverse people: teach people who are like factory workers, Greenwich Village artists, e poor people, social workers in East Harlem . She was a me, who ar lesbian and while she was not openly gay who have no understanding until late in life, privately she connected with New York’s gay community . Meanwhile, she of the fact that they can pursued her education, earning degrees from produce wealth.” Antonia Pantoja Below is a mural in East Harlem by Manny Vega depicting Dr. Antonia Pantoja. The mural was unveiled on November 20, 2015 as part of a larger celebration of Pantoja’s life and ties to El Barrio and the Puerto Rican community. Antonia Pantoja Mosaic Mural, 2018. Ronald Stockwell. East Harlem, New York City. Hunter College (1952), Columbia University’s School of Social Work (1954), and the Union Graduate School (1973) . In 1957 Pantoja was hired by Dr . Frank Horne to join a new city agency, the Commission on Intergroup Relations . Under his tutelage, Pantoja planned a new organization for Puerto Ricans, based on African- American and Jewish rights groups she observed in New York . The Puerto Rican Forum “would fight to eliminate the problems that were making our community weak, poor, silenced, submissive . ” The era of ASPIRA’s rise—the years of the civil rights and antiwar movements, Black Power, and women’s and gay liberation—also saw new Puerto Rican activism . Some New York activists worked with ASPIRA; others embraced more militant strategies . The Young Lords (1969), a revolutionary party, demanded public health services for the Puerto Rican community . Founded in 1965, United Bronx Parents mobilized Latino and other parents to challenge city officials for better public schools . The Nuyorican Poets Café (1973) became a crossroads for literature and art shaped by Latino social and political concerns . Pantoja was ASPIRA’s executive director from 1961 to 1966, and then she moved on to other projects . She helped found Boricua College, a bilingual institution with four New York City campuses, in 1974 . In 1986 she founded Producir, Inc ., to develop community self-help organizations in rural Puerto Rico . After teaching social work at San Diego State University, she returned to New York in 1999 . In 1996 Pantoja was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, for her work founding ASPIRA and a host of other organizations, including the Puerto Rican Forum, the Hispanic Young Adult Association, the Puerto Rican Association for Community Affairs, the Puerto Rican Research and Resources Center, Producir, Inc ., and Boricua College . Since her death in 2002 she has remained an inspirational figure in New York City . Source: Adapted from the New York at Its Core exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York Document Analysis Along with ASPIRA, many groups took action to bring about change for the Latino and black communities. In 1981, activists protested the movie, Fort Apache, The Bronx for what they saw as racist stereotyping in the South Bronx. The Lourdes Torres Papers. Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, CUNY. ■■ Why would members of the Puerto Rican and Black communities of the South Bronx be concerned about the fictional depiction of their neighborhood in a film? ■■ How might actions like these create positive change in a community? ■■ What does this image tell us about the American identity? Explain . ■■ Based on this caption do you think the people participating in this protest believe that there is one America or many? Explain . Social Studies – Day 2 Passport to Social Studies: Causes of the Great Depression Objective Analyze a political cartoon and fictional conversation between economists to determine the economic conditions that led to the Great Depression. Resources/Materials • The Depression is all HIS Fault cartoon by Nate Collier • Economist Discussion on the Great Depression • Causes of the Great Depression Worksheet Activity • Look at The Depression is all HIS Fault political cartoon and answer the following question, “What is the message of this cartoon?” • Read the Economist Discussion on the Great Depression and complete the Causes of the Great Depression Worksheet. • Based on the readings consider the following question, “Who do economists believe was to blame for the Depression?” Use evidence from the documents to support your answer. Additional Resources • History Channel: The Great Depression https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8k0jJdqKP0 Learn at Home: Social Studies Resources for Families Grade 8 SS_TE2019_G08_U04_TEXT_v4.indd 167 05.15.19 14:09 05.15.19 14:09 Causes of the Great Depression Worksheet Causes of Why would this cause Cite and Create one question for the Great Depression a depression? explain your evidence further inquiry SS_TE2019_G08_U04_TEXT_v4.indd 168 Economist Discussion on the Great Depression Moderator: Everything was so rosy just a few short months ago, and yet today the United States nds itself facing a horrible economic depression. We have invited the nation’s top economists here to ask them, “How did this all come about?” Economist #1: The consumer must be blamed as well. People used the popular installment plan to buy refrigerators, cars, radios, furniture, and clothing when they did not have the savings to pay for them.
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